Word: giamatti
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Schmidt, currently the dean of the Columbia LawSchool, will succeed A. Bartlett Giamatti aspresident of Yale next month. He is regarded as anauthority on the history of the Supreme Court thefreedom of the press. He has moderated round-tablediscussions of freedom of the press and otherlegal issues for the Public Braodcasting System...
...search went forward with all the secrecy that might have attended the selection of a Pope. And last week, when the Yale Corporation announced a new president to succeed the retiring A. Bartlett Giamatti, there was little doubt the university had picked a man of very proper parts. "We had a rather long list of qualities we were looking for," said Cyrus R. Vance, former Secretary of State and head of the search committee, "and Benno C. Schmidt Jr. had more of them than anyone else." That takes in a lot of people, more than 400 original prospects...
...himself "thrilled about getting up there and digging into" the prestigious office atop the 284-year-old school. At the same time, he admits to being "somewhat apprehensive about the complexity" of his role as Yale's 20th president. That role has been made easier by the incumbency of Giamatti, 48, who more than doubled Yale's endowment to a formidable $1.3 billion and pushed forward a $25 million building-renovation program. Giamatti, who has been offered a sabbatical from Yale and is contemplating a plunge into politics, indicated that eight years of fretting over money and maintenance was more...
...Yale community offered virtually no dissent on Schmidt's selection. And the search committee was deeply pleased with its decision, doubly so at having avoided leaks, which eight years ago revealed Giamatti to be second choice. Although Vance was discreetly mum about alternative candidates this time, it was clear that, as a 19th century yachtsman replied when asked who finished second in the runaway victory by the U.S. in the first America's Cup race, "there is no second...
Yale officials refuse to reveal their president's compensation, but it is believed that Giamatti's salary is in the neighborhood of that received by his Harvard counterpart, President Derek C. Bok. Bok's 1983-84 base salary...